Little Country Church on the edge of town

Do do do do do do

People coming every day from miles around

For meetings and for Sunday school

And it's very plain to see

It's not the way it used to be.

Welcome to the Word for today, featuring the Bible teaching ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of the Calvary Chapel Movement.

This radio program is a chapter-by-chapter by chapter verse by verse study through the entire Bible.

And on today's edition of the Word for today, Pastor Chuck continues his message,

Mary the Sister of Lazarus, as we pick up in John chapter 11, verse one.

And now with today's study, here's Pastor Chuck.

Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the gospel according to John chapter 11?

Now we remember that John is carefully picking out certain incidents in the life of Jesus

by which he might prove that Jesus was the Messiah,

the son of the living God,

bringing people to a faith in him as such

that through that faith they might have the life of Christ imparted to them.

And he testifies there were many other things that Jesus did,

which he did not record,

but these he recorded that you might believe.

And so John is writing from a slant, trying to encourage faith.

At the end of the epistle, he again declared that if all of the things were written that should be written, all of the libraries of the

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